ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,737, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ASHIMORI INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Settsu, Japan).
"Curtain airbag device" was invented by Yuta Minami (Osaka, Japan), Tetsuro Hamada (Osaka, Japan) and Masanori Kato (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A curtain airbag device includes an airbag including, on one end side in a vehicle front-rear direction, an inflation portion configured to be inflated by a gas, and a non-inflation region into which the gas does not flow. In a state where the airbag is inflated and deployed, the non-inflation region covers a part of an opening among the plurality of openings, and the inflation portion is di...